We believe that Ethernet scales nicely to 100 megabits and beyond, and that in the future, Ethernet will be the way local and campus area networks are built.
Predictor: Joy, Bill
Prediction, in context:In a November 1995 a speech at Sun Microsystems UltraComputing Event, Bill Joy, co-founder and vice president of Sun Microsystems, says: ”With the Ultra generation, we have 100-megabit Ethernet. We believe that Ethernet scales nicely to 100 megabits and beyond, and that in the future, Ethernet will be the way local and campus area networks are built.”
Biography:Bill Joy served as chief of technical strategy at Sun Microsystems, a position he held in the 1990s, from the founding of days of the company in 1982. (Technology Developer/Administrator.)
Date of prediction: November 7, 1995
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: Pipeline/Switching/Hardware
Name of publication: The UltraComputing Event
Title, headline, chapter name: The Ultra Generation: To The Next Millennium
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.sun.com/951107/feature1/
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